Summary: Modeling Intelligent Ontology Evolution Using
Biological Evolutionary Processes
Philip O'Brien
Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3V6
Email: pobrien@cs.dal.ca
Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3V6
Email: sraza@cs.dal.ca
Abstract-- Ontology design and development is rapidly becom-
ing a study in its own rite. It consists of a set of processes that
work together to advance ontologies from simple, static docu-
ments to complex and dynamic networks of semantic concepts
that describe a domain. This paper discusses these processes with
a particular focus on ontology evolution. Ontology evolution has
arisen from a demand to track and detect changes in ontologies
and the environments in which they live. We review this subset